Sinaloa Cartel

The Sinaloa Cartel is an international Mexican drug trafficking syndicate that was established in the 1980s. Based in the city of Culiacan in the state of Sinaloa on the western coast of Mexico and in the northern parts of the country. The United States' intelligence community deemed the Sinaloa Cartel to be the most dangerous drug cartel in the world, and it became a major producer of opium and marijuana in the states of Sinaloa, Durango, and Chihuahua. From 1990 to 2008, the group sent 200 tons of cocaine and several tons of heroin into the USA, and it was the primary importer of drugs into the USA by 2015.